Fortune by Amanda Smyth -
The best books make the most difficult subjects for reviews. Almost anything said about the book feels like divulging secrets, and Fortune, Amanda Smyth’s latest novel, has secrets at every turn.
This we know for sure: Trinidadian-born Eddie Wade, who migrated to the US, where he gambled on finding oil wells, has returned to his roots with a mission to discover oil around 1928, when witchbroom is destroying cocoa. Before the devastating disease, Trinidad had been the third-largest cocoa producer in the world, producing 20 per cent of the world’s cocoa.
Oil is a dangerous business that suits Eddie’s adventurous nature and penchant for courting danger in work and his personal life. Now, like Apex and other oil companies, Eddie pursues Sonny Chatterjee, a failing cocoa farmer rooted in tradition, and his father’s cocoa plantation. Sonny’s land oozes oil.
Tributes paid to the kind-hearted Queen of the Cat’s Cradle
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The late Molly Keane with the Máire Hourigan perpetual cup, in memory of her granddaughter, in the Cat s Cradle in 2017 );
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THE LATE Molly Keane, of the Cat’s Cradle in Ballyneety, was an extraordinary lady , said former TD and councillor, Eddie Wade.
Molly, in her 91st year, passed away peacefully on Tuesday after a short illness at University Hospital Limerick.
A private Requiem Mass, for family only, will take place on Friday at 12pm in St Patrick s Church, Knockea. Mass will be streamed live - to view it please click here.
Pandemic forces former Limerick TD to miss first All-Ireland finals in 54 years
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FORMER Limerick TD Eddie Wade has not missed an All-Ireland hurling or football final since the mid-1960s – until this year.
The Drombanna man believes he is in a minority of one, having witnessed every hurling final in person, from Tipperary’s win over Kilkenny in 1964, to the Premier County’s victory over the same opposition last year.
On top of this, he has been at Croke Park for every football decider from Galway’s win over Meath in 1966, to Dublin completing their historic five-in-a-row last season.